Get Going with FileMaker Go!

With FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Go, you can tackle any task quickly and easily and have access to your information wherever you go. And for a limited time, buy FileMaker Go from the iTunes App Store for iPhone or iPad and get FileMaker Pro 11 for just £99+VAT - a £219+VAT value!

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A World of Resources at Your Fingertips

The FileMaker Technical Network is the free-to-join community where you can boost your FileMaker expertise, build better solutions and solve your technical challenges. If you're building FileMaker solutions, this is the place for you.

And if you join by 15th March 2012, you can download the FileMaker Training Series for only £4.90+VAT (a £65+VAT value)!

Capture and Manage Data: FileMaker Go Podcast

FileMaker Go for iPad is the focus of a new Apple video podcast in the "iPad How To" series, which shows you how iPad features and applications can help businesses to get the job done.

Watch it now, or subscribe to the series through iTunes on your PC, Mac, iPhone or iPad.

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Tell us your FileMaker Go Story

Got a special FileMaker Go for iPad or iPhone story? We'd love to hear about it and possibly feature your story on the FileMaker web site.

Send an email with a 100-word description of the solution and your full contact info (name, title, company, URL and phone number).

FileMaker Basic Tip

Listing and Sorting by the First Letter of a Last Name

FileMaker Knowledge Base

This article discusses how to list and sort the data in your database in a Rolodex like fashion; allowing you to print out a directory of names with different pages for each initial. This technique assumes that you have fields called "LastName" and "FirstName" in which you have entered the last and first names of the people in your database.

FileMaker UK Webinars

Join the UK team at FileMaker for new webinars in the coming months.

1. Getting Started with FileMaker – FileMaker Go Starter Solutions
   27th January 2012 @ 12:00
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2. Quickly Develop and Deploy Custom iPad/iPhone Business Solutions
   24th February 2012 @ 12:00
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After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

For those of you who couldn't make our webinar "Quickly Develop and Deploy Custom iPad/iPhone Business Solutions" on 5th January 2012 @ 12.00 you can visit our website and watch the recording.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000
Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

"FileMaker Go in Business: Lee Medical" Webinar

While U.S. hospital-acquired infections are on the rise, the prognosis is good in one important area: bloodstream infections.

These are often caused by mismanagement of IV catheters in patients' veins and by poor catheter insertion. Fortunately, contract vascular access specialists Lee Medical, along with help from FileMaker Go, now drive down the troubling frequency and cost of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) through their highly successful VAST® solution.

Join us for an informative real world look at how FileMaker Go helps Lee Medical save millions of healthcare dollars and improve patient outcomes by reducing blood stream infection rates through the use of real time surveillance.

FileMaker user groups make learning social

While you'll find plenty of great community based advice at our User Group pages over at www.filemaker.co.uk, sometimes it's nice to get some friendly face-to-face advice and knowledge sharing too.

That's just the kind of thing you'll find at one of our User Group meetings, which are run regularly across the country, bringing together FileMaker developers and professionals from the local area to share information and best practice.

The FileMaker South West Users group, hosted by Nick Stockbridge at the Transmedia Training offices in Bristol, is going from strength to strength. "Maybe people have heard how helpful the group is to one another", says Nick. "We alternate between specific topic demonstrations, such as creating a universal 'Back' navigation between layouts, and free-for-all sessions, where members bring in their projects to ask for assistance from others. There's always someone with a good idea to share and we have room for more".

Forthcoming Meetings:

   • Brighton User Group, Brighton, 19:00, 27th January 2012
   • South West User Group, Bristol, 18:30-20:00, 5th March 2012

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FileMaker Advanced Tip

Searching Across Relationships for “Empty” Fields

Jud Wolfskill, The Support Group

Have you ever wanted to find records where a certain field is empty? Suppose you are updating your contact database and trying to capture email addresses for as many people as possible. You need to find every person for whom you do not have an email address. When searching in FileMaker, the equal sign operator (=) is used to find an exact match; when used by itself in a field, with nothing else following it, it tells FileMaker to find records where the field is empty. So… easy enough, right?.

Next UK TechNet Meeting

Tuesday 27th March 2012 from 10:00 at Apple, 2 Furzeground Way, Stockley Park East, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1BB, United Kingdom.
FileMaker Developer Subscription membership required.
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"Many thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable TechNet meeting yesterday. Really enjoyed catching up with some familiar faces and meeting so many new ones – always a good sign of a dynamic group. I made some good contacts yesterday, in terms of possible joint project associates and virtual teams."
Arthur Evans
AWE Consultancy

FileMaker Job Board for job-seekers and employers

Are you looking for a career as a FileMaker database developer? Or are you hiring FileMaker developers? The FileMaker Job Board is for you. It's completely free, and it's the best place for employers and job-seekers to meet. If you're hiring FileMaker developers – whether you work in a corporation, university, government agency or independent consulting firm – the FileMaker Job Board reaches the best-qualified employees anywhere. Looking for a career in FileMaker development? The FileMaker Job Board is the best place for developers to find exciting career opportunities and job openings. Looking for a job as tester, developer, architect or intern? You'll find them all on the FileMaker Job Board.

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New Licensing Webstore

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